Build Critique

[ChronicSilence]

Hi everyone. Posted this in the wrong forum, someone said I should stick it here. I'm renovating my PC, been out of the market a couple years and wanted to run the build by some pros before confirming the order.

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Gaming, but also a lot of CPI intensive stuff for my work (involving some engineering simulations, intense MATLAB code, etc.)

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
Approx. $1600 - $1700, but I already have a lot of parts (see #5)

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
Canada

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.
Intel, nVidia

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
- Case: Antec 1200
- Power: ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ1100 1100W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply
- 1920 x 1200 monitor
- 5x 1.5TB seagate HDD


6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Read through some, none with the same re-used components

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
I'd like to play with overclocking a bit, nothing extreme.

8. What resolution YOU plan on gaming with.
1920x1200

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Before the end of December

10. Don't ask for a build configuration critique or rating if you are thin skinned.
Bring it on.

My build:

- Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I72600K - $329.99

- ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - $269.99

- G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory - $159.99
- Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F180GBGT-BK 2.5" 180GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - $319.99

- EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - $369.99

-XIGMATEK Gaia SD1283 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler bracket included LGA 2011 i7 i5 775 1155 AMD - $34

The above parts are running me roughly $1660 (CAN) with tax, this sound about right?

Like I said, I havn't ordered anything so I'm completely open to suggestions. Order wouldn't ship till Monday anyways

Thanks!

 

[Puppies04]

Copy the sticky from the top of this forum and paste it in this thread with the relevant answers otherwise asking for a critique is userless as we don't know what your budget is or what the machine will be used for.

 

[lehtv]

Could you post answers to the questions in the sticky, and also list what your current hardware is. Thx

 

[ChronicSilence]

Alright, sorry about that. Original post is edited to answer questions.

 

[mfenn]

What you have will work, but is a big waste of money given your intended uses. Let's go down the list;

- CPU: OK, but generally speaking FP heavy-code (think MATLAB's BLAS and FE solvers) doesn't really benefit from HT. Gaming doesn't either. I would step this down to an i5 2500K for $240 CAD
- Mobo: Way overkill. The GA-Z68XP-UD3 for $150 AR gives you pretty much the same amount of useful features for $110 less.
- RAM: Way overkill. Super speed memory does not help Sandy Bridge much at all. You can get 16GB of Mushkin for $74.
- SSD : Definitely would not pay that much for a Sandforce SSD, especially not when there are so many better options around. NCIX and Newegg.ca are out of stock of the M4 128GB for $222, but I'm betting they'll get some more in on Monday.
- GPU: $370 is too much to be spending on something with performance level of the GTX 570. Here you have a choice to make: either get GTX 570 like performance for $245 AR by getting a single 6950 2GB or double up on the 6950 2GBs and blow the GTX 570 out of the water.
- HSF: Good

This works out to $965 or $1210 depending on whether or not you want to go for Crossfire. You can either save the extra money (my recommendation) or get an M4 256GB.

 

[fourdegrees11]

The prices/selection of some of your components seem a little extreme.

Any reason a $150 MB wouldnt work?

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16813157271

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16813128512

Or why buying a pair of 2x4 gb ram sticks at $30 a pair dosent make sense?

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820231428

You could practicaly get two 120gb SSDs for the price of that 180gb

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820226236

Take the money you just saved and get a GTX580

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16814121429

edit: guess I took to long, mfenn beat me to it

 

[mfenn]

edit: guess I took to long, mfenn beat me to it

:ninja:

 

[nsavop]

Cronicsilence i would take mfenn's advice but if you prefer Nvidia cards i would get the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 Windforce its factory overclocked like the evga but with a better cooler and its 324.45 AR.

The gtx 570 is faster then the 6950 in most games but also cost more. Either card will not disappoint.

Your other option is to wait for the next generation of gpu's with AMD's 7xxx rumored to release in January and Nvidia's Kepler sometime after that.